LABOR'S FIGHTING FUND.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1914, Page 8

LABOR'S FIGHTING FUND.

A LEVY PROPOSED

(Received May 14, [r.45 a.m.)

SYDNEY, May 14. A confere-nce of the Political Labor "Le&gu© and some of the unions resolved to ask all unions to levy one .shilling, per lnomber, and to ask Labor Members of Parliament, to pay 10 per cent, of tlroir salary',to' the Federal fighting fund.

Married men who tat the responsibility to maintain their wives a,nd families v/sigli. H^htly upon them h&vo now an additional risk to face. In two cases at the Auckland Magistrate's Court Mr C. C. Kettle, 5.M... btteides making an order for maintenance, nbo convicted the men under Beeiaion 62 of the Act regulating these matters, winch provides that persons "w!ho wilfully fail to provide adequate ■mainrfamanoe for their Avives and families may be, sentenced to six imjontliiH' imprisonment. Mr Kettle ordered! eaoh man to come up for sgntenco vrh ?n called upon. He remaTltArJ: "If they won't provide for tfoeiir families they may possibly go to ;gaol for cix months."